Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

Daniel Quinn <gentoo@×××××××××××.org> [16-03-30 17:12]:
> On 29/03/16 17:18, Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote:
>
>     The usbstick I want to make an initial backup is 64GB of size.
>     That means, I will backup mostly zeroes.
>
> You could just use dd to take a full backup and then compress it. If it
> is indeed mostly zeros it’ll compress very well:
>
> |# dd if=/dev/usbstick | xz > usb.xz |
>
> Of course you can use bzip, lbzip, gzip, etc. instead of xz too.
>


See some posting above why this may be not what you want, if simply
cloning the partinioning/formatting information is enough.

Best regards,
Meino